Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software

Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by drawkbox on Friday June 12, 2015 @05:42AM (#9704853)

Oracle never really cared about the developer experience. Eventually that wears out whatever market lead a company might have.

Oracle can be very fast and well setup but the tools to work with are not good and the general optimization now is not as needed with cheaper hardware and more horizontal systems.

There are so many other options out there now. PostgreSQL is great to work with and is so good now that it just might be the leader. Oracle was late to embrace usage on cloud instances and licensing models in that environment don't do as well, that is why Microsoft created Azure and it is their new platform essentially.

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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by mikegioia on Friday June 12, 2015 @06:28AM (#9704991)

Postgres is great, but sadly it's not really in contention for being the RDBMS leader right now: http://db-engines.com/en/ranking/relational+dbms, but it is steadily climbing.

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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by TylerE on Friday June 12, 2015 @08:20AM (#9705389)

That's ridiculous. By that type of metric Comcast is the #1 isp.

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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by cwyers on Friday June 12, 2015 @08:44AM (#9705470)

I need to bookmark this page for the next time I see someone say MySQL is dead and everyone uses MariaDB now.

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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by bsdpython on Friday June 12, 2015 @09:10AM (#9705597)

Look at the YOY change - if the trend continues Postgresql will be right up there in 3-4 years

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Re:Oracle Sales Erode as Startups Embrace Free Software by hitekker on Friday June 12, 2015 @01:42PM (#9707396)

Consider this graph: http://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend/relational+dbms

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